Selflessness Inspires Innovative Collaborations and Learning

Through selfless acts of service and learning, inmates become the teachers, children solve problems together to make a lasting change at their school, and CSU students gain deeper insight into societal reasons for crime, while others inspire a new generation of non-violent activists.

English professor Bidhan Roy adopted his dog from Karma Rescue, which works with Lancaster State Prison in “Paws for Life,” a program pairing unadoptable shelter dogs with prisoners who train them to earn Canine Good Citizen certificates.

As part of a year-long program that required full-time student teaching, credential students placed in elementary schools created a service-learning project for their elementary school classes. The project allowed credential and elementary students to solve a problem together and make a change.